Sunny Jacobs speaking at Saoise | Freedom on Easter Monday at Kilmainham Gaol. Saoirse was brought to you by The Trailblazery with the kind support of Creative Ireland, OPW, Dublin City Council + Catapult.
Sunny Jacobs
Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs (64) was sentenced to death at the age of 28 for the murder of two police officers in Florida. When she was imprisoned, her two young children were cast into the foster care system. Nearly 17 years after her arrest, Sunny’s conviction was overturned on appeal. Her story, along with those of five other wrongfully convicted death row inmates, became The Exonerated, a play put on by the nonprofit theater, The Culture Project. Sunny is the author of Stolen Time: One Woman’s Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death.
‘An extraordinary and inspirational story. Sunny Jacobs is a remarkable woman’ Susan Sarandon, Actress
“If we fight for something, we fight for the thing we love. When we fight against something, we fight against the thing we hate” Simon Sinek
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Freedom invites a host of artists, musicians, performers, activists and thinkers to decode the burning questions at the heart of cultural revolution and evolution. These “freedom fighters” set out to navigate many perspectives from the personal to the political and beyond.
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